HomeThe most deadly kinds of disease and dysfunction are the ones that go unnoticed or undiagnosed. What might have been relatively easy to fix becomes infinitely more difficult over time, assuming it is salvageable at all.
The most deadly kinds of disease and dysfunction are the ones that go unnoticed or undiagnosed. What might have been relatively easy to fix becomes infinitely more difficult over time, assuming it is salvageable at all.
We’ve passed the 41 week mark. Still waiting on the baby to arrive. Feeling a little frustrated, but realizing that a few days here or there won’t matter much in the long run. It’s just that I arranged with my employer to have lots of time to spend with the baby this month. I’m losing that time. Sometimes, it’s hard to adapt to the way things are versus the way you wish they would be. Read More…
With our first baby on the way, I’ve just begun to dread the possible move to family friendly music. Thank God for headphones. Even now, I get to listen to music my wife can’t stand because I have headphones. With headphones and me-time in the car, I’ll probably still get plenty of opportunity to listen to my music.
The situation changes, though, once our children reach that age of accountability. Read More…
We’re officially two days past our guess date (due date). We’re in uncharted territory now, not knowing when the baby will choose to arrive. That’s something most people don’t know, by the way. The baby is the initiator of all major events. The baby sends a hormone signal to the mother to announce its arrival in the beginning. This hormone signal tells the mother to keep the egg and to cease flushing the system every month. At the end of pregnancy, when the baby’s lungs have reached full maturity, the baby releases another hormone signal to the mother to announce it is ready for birth. So despite all the inducing that doctors do these days, it’s based on the desire for convenience and rarely upon necessity.
But that’s not my point in writing tonight. While we’ve been anxiously awaiting our new arrival, I have been acutely aware of the fact that I have not done everything I wanted to do to prepare for this baby, and I am getting the opportunity to prepare now. Had the baby come when we hoped (end of November), I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to get some important things in order, or to experience some of the joys I have recently discovered.
Just an hour ago, I laid my hand on my wife’s belly and began to listen to the Lord. I wanted to hear from Him about my child before he/she was ever born. I have a strong sense that the baby is a female, but we won’t know until the birth day. I will be ecstatic over either a boy or girl, so don’t take that to mean that I’m “hoping” for a girl. As I lay beside my wife, I began to write a few things that the Lord shared with me. Just a few words about my child which I will share with that child some time in the future.
If you’ve never prophesied or listened to God speak over your unborn child, you’re missing out. If you have the opportunity, please do it. It’s amazing to hear God share mysteries with you about a person you’ve never met. Especially when you don’t even know the gender of the child. It was a precious time to me of listening to God speak. I would very much like to do it again if I have the opportunity before our baby is born. Then again, I’ll be praying over this child all the time, and asking God to share his thoughts with me about him/her.
Hearing God speak over your child is a major pleasure. It’s a quiet, simple pleasure, but it’s a major pleasure nonetheless. These are the kinds of things I hoped to do before our child was born that would have been sacrificed if we had rushed the birth and induced labor to fit our schedule rather than God’s.
The clock is ticking. It’s only a matter of time. While I haven’t been blogging faithfully, I have been thinking of topics to cover. I’m thinking more and more about using my time online to educate and train my child. With that goal, and with Proverbs rolling around in the back of my mind, I’ve decided to create a series of life lessons for my child. It will be easier to write once I know if I’m speaking to a boy or a girl, but I want to begin anyway because eventually this could mean something to him or her and I want to get a head start.
I’m also hoping that one or two other people will stumble across this blog and find some benefit in these words. I am a firm believer that sharing one’s testimony is a potent method of both teaching and convincing. Philosophical concepts are great, and they have their place, but nothing is as formative and transformational as the word of our testimony.
I am so excited to meet my baby. I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that I am a bit terrified as well. There’s simply no way to be fully prepared and have all your ducks in a row. I am going to face situations I wasn’t expecting. I have a deep respect for the role of a father and mother in the life of a child. I know that they have far more impact on the development of a child than any school program. I know and respect the reality that I have a God-given responsibility to love and train my children. And this awesome responsibility is why I want to write down some life lessons.
They come to me at odd times - usually when I’m driving or nowhere near a notepad. But they’re important thoughts, experiences, and concepts, and I hope you are blessed by them as much as I will be by writing them. No promises on regularity, though. They come when they come.
